More than 250 exercises and solutions on properties and applications of Catalan numbers, at levels ranging from recreational to research.
Richard P. Stanley is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is universally recognized as a leading expert in the field of combinatorics and its applications to a variety of other mathematical disciplines. He won the AMS 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for his books Enumerative Combinatorics, Volumes 1 and 2, which contain material that form the basis for much of the present book.
1. Basic properties; 2. Bijective exercises; 3. Bijective solutions; 4. Additional problems; 5. Solutions to additional problems.